                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 55.1-661)

As used in this article, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#8220;Clerk&#8221;  means a clerk of the circuit court.
		&#8220;Document&#8221;  means information that is:

1. Inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other
medium and is retrievable in perceivable form; and

2. Eligible to be recorded in the land records maintained by the clerk.
			&#8220;Electronic,&#8221;  as defined in Uniform Electronic Transactions Act
(&#xA7; 59.1-479 et seq.), means relating to technology having electrical,
digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities.
			&#8220;Electronic document&#8221;  means a document received by the clerk in
electronic form.
			&#8220;Electronic notarization&#8221;  means an official act by a notary
public in accordance with the Virginia Notary Act (&#xA7; 47.1-1 et seq.) and
&#xA7; 55.1-618 with respect to an electronic document.
			&#8220;Electronic signature,&#8221;  as defined in the Uniform Electronic
Transactions Act (&#xA7; 59.1-479 et seq.), means an electronic sound, symbol,
or process attached to or logically associated with a record and executed or
adopted by a person with the intent to sign the record.
			&#8220;eRecording System&#8221;  is the automated electronic recording system
implemented by the clerk for the recordation of electronic documents among the
land records maintained by the clerk.
			&#8220;Filer&#8221;  means an individual, corporation, business trust,
estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint
venture, public body, public corporation, government, or governmental
subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity
that files an electronic document among the land records maintained by the
clerk.
			&#8220;Land records document&#8221;  means any writing authorized by law to
be recorded, whether made on paper or in electronic format, that the clerk
records affecting title to real property.

HISTORY: 2006, c. 745, § 55-142.10; 2019, c. 712.